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Shiffrin, Hirscher and Weng lead prize money rankings

19 April 2017 13:03

Shiffrin celebrates a slalom victory -

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The 2016/17 World Cup season featured exciting competitions and awarded a large amount of prize money to the best competitors. Below is an overview of the top earners, excluding World Championships (in Swiss francs, CHF).

Alpine star and overall World Cup winner Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) concluded the 2016/17 season as the top prize money earner across all FIS disciplines with CHF 597'692, thanks to 14 podiums of which eleven were victories. Her closest contenders for the overall globe, Ilka Stuhec (SLO) and Lara Gut (SUI) earned 414'314 and 310'418 respectively.

On the men’s side, as in previous years, Marcel Hirscher (AUT) topped the standings. Thanks to 16 podiums of which six were victories, he went home with CHF 528'878. Henrik Kristoffersen and Kjetil Jansrud (both NOR) followed with 294'722 and 283'447 respectively.

As in the past years, Eric Frenzel (GER) was Nordic Combined's top earner with CHF 135’430 thanks to 18 podiums of which ten were victories. His teammates Johannes Rydzek and Fabian Riessle went home with 121’420 and 68’860, respectively.